Phil goddam Jevons beat us in this one. It's looking like play offs now.

Southend 0 Yeovil Town 1 Jevons 83 Stuart Barnes at Roots Hall The Observer, Sunday 1 May 2005 01.22 BST Article history Chelsea have been Premiership winners-elect for a greater part of the season, Sunderland's superiority in the Championship was confirmed on Friday night and Luton are already top hatters of League One. But an invigorating title race in League Two will go the full distance with four teams in with a chance as they approach the final programme of matches on Saturday. It has been a season full of twists and turns, with Scunthorpe forcing the pace until the New Year, Yeovil taking over as favourites amid a flood of goals and Southend then mounting a sustained challenged. The latter two sides went head to head at Roots Hall yesterday and it was Yeovil who prevailed thanks to a late goal by their leading marksman, Phil Jevons. It leaves them very much in poll position with a home game against Lincoln to come, but don't be surprised if there is a final twist to come. For long spells here, a goalless draw looked inevitable, with chances at a premium and neither team able to take a grip on proceedings. Jevons, however, was in the right place at the right time to take advantage of a deflection and it was good enough to punish an indifferent display by Southend. A sell-out crowd on a warm, still afternoon made for an excellent atmosphere. Games such as this, with so much at stake, can often be tight, tense affairs and certainly for the first half-hour here that was the case. Yeovil manager Gary Johnson restored Polish striker Bartozs Tarachulski up front alongside Jevons and it was his team who showed up better in the early stages. The manager's son, Lee Johnson, was prominent in midfield areas without managing to release either Jevons or Tarachulski in any threatening positions. Southend took a while to develop any sort of passing game. When they did, skipper Kevin Maher tried hard to get his team rolling, and there was a half-chance for the home team's top scorer Freddy Eastwood,, who carried the ball across the 18-yard line, but his shot, hit slightly off balance was high, wide and not particularly handsome. Yeovil suffered a blow when Tarachulski limped out of the action. Marcus Richardson replaced him and almost immediately had the ball in the net, albeit from an offside position. With conditions as well as the game beginning to heat up, a break for drinks was the prelude to a brief spell of goalmouth activity at the Southend end. Richardson, receiving a pass from Johnson, played a high, hanging cross to the far post where Aaron Davies connected with a firm header that Darryl Flahavan turned around his left-hand upright. A second blow for Yeovil came just before half-time when Richardson had to be replaced by former Fulham winger Andrejs Stolcers. Another case of a move flattering to deceive came after the break with full-back Kevin Amankwaah striding forward 60 yards deep into the Yeovil half, then hesitating and